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The Character of Meriwether Lewis: Explorer in the Wilderness

By Clay S. Jenkinson, David L. Nicandri (Foreword by)
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By Clay S. Jenkinson, David L. Nicandri (Foreword by)
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Meriwether Lewis commanded the most important exploration mission in the early history of the United States. Clay S. Jenkinson takes a fresh look at Lewis, not to offer a paper cutout hero but to describe and explain a hyperserious young man of great complexity who found the wilderness of Upper Louisiana as exacting as it was exhilarating.

Jenkinson sees Lewis as a troubled soul before he left St. Charles, Missouri, in May 1804. His experiences in lands "upon which the foot of civilized man ...

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